C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination - 9781472414748

Taylor & Francis

C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination investigates the emergence and lineage of a criminological concept indebted to Mills\u2019 thought, adapting and applying it to a specifically criminological context. With attention to theoretical concerns, as well as the application of the criminological imagination in concrete empirical research, this volume sheds new light on the methodological and analytical aspects of the criminological imagination as a multifaceted concept, exploring the possibilities that it offers for the emergence of an imaginative criminological practice. > In spite of its widespread use within criminology, the term \u2019criminological imagination\u2019, as derived from C. Wright Mills\u2019 classic The Sociological Imagination, has yet to be fully developed and clarified as an analytic concept capable of guiding theorizing or empirical enquiry. This volume, with a preface by Elliot Currie, engages with and reflects on this concept, exploring C. Wright .